Collar-button.



No. b'. Patented Unt. I6, |900.

W. S. YUST.

CULLAR BUTTON.

(Application lad May 18, 1900.)

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WILLARD S. YOST, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 660,039, dated October 16, 1900.

Application filed May 18, 1900. Serial No. 17,143. (No model.)

To (1,71 7171/0771, it 717mg/ concern:

Be it known that I, VILLARD S. YOST, a citizen ofthe United States, residingin New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented an Improved Collar-Button, of which the following is a specification.

The main object of myinvention is to construct a collar-button which will facilitate the huttoning of the front ends of the collar to the neckband of the shirt. This object I attain in the manner which I will now describe.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a plan view of the collar-button, showing a portion of the neckband and of the ends of the collar about to be fastened bythe button to the neckband. Fig. 2 is a corresponding view showing the second end of the collar about to be drawn into place. 3 is a corresponding view showing the end of the collar fully drawn into place. Fig. et is a vertical section through the collar ends and neckband and showing the button in outside View in its closed position. Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of the button, showing a part in section. Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the lever of the button in a different position. Fig. 7 is a iront view of the button as shown in Fig. 6, and Fig. 8 is a view of the button-lever detached.

My collar-button is of that class in which a pivoted lever is combined with the main body of the button. Lever-buttons of this character are most commonly used at the back of the neckband, the lever serving to hold the necktie in place. My invention, however, is designed for a different purpose and is intended to be used at the front of the neckband for the purpose of facilitating the drawing of the ends of the collar onto the stem of the button and maintaining them there.

A is the back of the button, B is the stem, and C is the head of the same, this head being preferably rounded, as shown in the drawings. To this head C is pivoted the lever D. In the present instance I have shown the head C as slotted for the reception of the pivoting end of the lever D, a pivot-pin CZ being passed through the head and lever. Spring means of any suitable character are provided to tend to maintain the leverD in the closed position shown in Fig. L when the level1 D has been moved over to that position.

In the drawings I have shown the pivoting end of the lever as iiattened at d', Fig. 8, and within the stem of the button I provide a spring-piston p, Figs 5 and (5, to bear against the periphery of the pivoting end of the lever D, as will be readily understood.

The outer end of the lever D is provided With a Enger D', which constitutes the principal feature of my invention. When the lever is turned down to the closed positionillustrated in Figs. 3 and 4t, this linger D' projects inward; but when the lever is turned back on its pivot to the extent of half a circle, as it can be, as shown in Figs. l and 5, the finger D' projects outward from the button.

In applying the collar to the neckband M of a shirt or shirt-waist the end S', which is to be first attached to the collar-button, can conveniently be slipped over the button-head and its lever in any suitable way. It is the aixing of the opposite or second end Sof tho collar that ordinarily gives trouble. By my invention the application of this second end oi' the collar to the button is rendered quite easy. I throw back the lever D ot' the collarbutton to the position shown in Figs. l and 5, with the fingerD' of the lever projecting outward and toward the approaching collar end S, so that the buttonhole of that collar end S can be slipped over the outwardly-projecting nger D', as shown in Fig. 1. Then the lever D is pulled over to the opposite side of the stem, as indicated in the plan view, Fig. 2, drawing the end S of the collar with it over toward the button and iinally pushing the collar end onto the button, as shown in Fig. 3. Then the whole button is by means of the lever D given a quarter-tu rn, so as to let the lever D hang downward in its closed position, as shown in Fig. 4t, the spring-retainer p tending to keep the lever in the closed position.

I claim as my invention- A collar-button consisting of a back, a stem projecting therefrom, a head on said stem, a lever pivoted to said head and adapted to be turned on its pivot to the extent of about a half a circle, the said lever having at its end @finger projecting outwardly when the lever is open and adapted to pass through and engage with the buttonhole of a collar end, whereby said buttonhole may be readily slipped over the linger onto the lever when the latter is open and the movement of said lever about its pivot to the Opposite side of the stem will draw the buttonhole over the head of the button and into Vposition on the Io stem thereof, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLARD S. YOST.

Witnesses WALTER ABBE, HUBERT I-loWsoN. 

